Internet Directory for Botany - Journals, Books, Literature Databases, Publishers

General

• Biodiversity Journals and Newsletters. List of Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server, BCWS, Cornell, USA.
• Electronic Journal Servers. List of ERIN, Australia.
• WWW Virtual Library: Journals, Conferences, and Current Awareness Services (Biosciences), Harvard, USA. Selected on-line journals and periodicals in biology and medicine, journal indexes and databases.

Books

• Biodiversidad de América Latina, Mexico. Full text of the book edited by Dr. Gonzalo Halffter, in Spanish.
• Index Holmiensis. A world index to plant distribution maps. Founded in 1969 by Hans Tralau (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden).Index Holmiensis is a world-covering index to distribution maps of vascular plants. Scientific publications from all parts of the world are systematically scanned by an international team of specialists. The index gives full bibliographic references to published distribution maps - local, regional or world-wide - of vascular plant taxa from family level and below, but mainly at the species level.
• Vatican Exhibit: Herbals by University of Illinois, USA.

Journals

• Acta Forestalia Fennica, Finland. Acta Forestalia Fennica publishes monographs in forest science.
• The American Cottage Gardener, USA. A horticultural quarterly exploring the panglobal cottage gardening style from the perspective of North American climate conditions, cultivars and adaptavars.
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists Newsletter, gopher, USA.
• Annals of Botany, gopher, UK.
• Annual Review of Phytopathology, USA, published each September.
• Aquatic Botany, Elsevier, the Netherlands.
• ARCTOA is a Russian bryological journal, published in Moscow University. - (in Russian/partly in English).
• The Bean Bag. Gopher version from Cornell, USA.
• Bioclimatologia, Mexican journal dealing with climatic conditions which control the distribution of native plants in the state of Veracruz, México.
• Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, gopher, UK. /// Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, UK. (www)
• Botanical Electronic News (British Columbia), searchable gopher, Canada.
• Botanica Marina, Berlin, Germany.
• Blyttia, a journal of the Norwegian Botanical Society, Norway.
• Canadian Journal of Botany, Canada: guides to authors.
• CNYMS, Central New York Mycological Society Newsletter, Mycology, Mushrooms, and Club News, USA.
• Conservation Ecology, USA. A publication of the Ecological Society of America (under construction).
• CSIRO Journals, Australia. CSIRO publishes the following twelve journals in cooperation with the Australian Academy of Science, under the supervision of the Australian Journals of Scientific Research (AJSR) Board: Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, Australian Journal of Botany, Australian Journal of Chemistry , Australian Journal of Physics, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, Australian Journal of Soil Research, Australian Journal of Zoology, Australian Systematic Botany, Invertebrate Taxonomy, Marine and Freshwater Research, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, Wildlife Research.
• EcoLink is a quarterly published journal. Each issue will delve into one ecological topic, including real-life stories, photos, scientific information, and links to related net resources.
• European Journal of Phycology, UK.
• European Society for Evolutionary Biology and Journal of Evolutionary Biology. From the University of Basel, Switzerland.
• Flora Online, Cornell, USA - a journal for collections-oriented botanical research.
• Fungus, USA. A weekly email newsletter dedicated to specialty mushroom cultivation.
• The Herb, Spice, and Medicinal Plant Digest, from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, is an information source containing reports on the production, chemistry, and marketing of herbs, spices, and medicinal plants.
• HerbalGram, the journal of the American Botanical Council and Herb Research Foundation.
• IOP (International Organisation of Palaeobotany) Newsletters, UK. The International Organisation of Palaeobotany publishes three newsletters a year and these are sent to all members. As an experiment the latest newsletters are being presented in this new format on the WWW.
• IPS Principes, USA. A quarterly published journal of the International Palm Society.
• Journal of Applied Phycology, gopher, UK.
• The Journal of Experimental Botany, from Oxford, UK.
• Journal of Paleolimnology, University of Manitoba, Canada.
• The Journal of Plankton Research, from Oxford, UK.
• Journal of Vegetation Science. Official organ of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS). Published by Opulus Press in Uppsala, Sweden (journals and books on ecology). Editorial board, Department of Ecological Botany, Uppsala University. Artciles on plant ecology, plant population, phytosociology, community structure and dynamics succession, palaeoecology, plant geography, methodology and theory.
• Lichenologist , gopher, Bath, UK.
• Newsletter of the Ann Arbor Orchid Society, Michigan, USA.
• Newsletter of the Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association, Australia. The Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association Inc. (IFFA) is dedicated to the conservation of the indigenous Australasian biota.
• Newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science, North American Section and Ecological Society of America, Vegetation Section, Fall 1995. - USA
• Orchadian, Australia. The journal of the Australasian Native Orchid Society that includes scientific, cultural and conservation articles.
• Orchid Research Newsletters, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
• Oregon Flora On-Line Newsletter by Oregon State University Herbarium, USA.
• Plant Gene Register - University of Nebraska & Ophelia Publishing, USA.
• Plant Science, Elsevier, the Netherlands.
• The Protocol Journal of Botanical Medicine by Herbal Research Publications, Inc, USA. The journal includes botanical analogs for the conventional drugs used today and a compilation of the most thoroughly researched botanical protocols. The format is easy to use in daily practice. The journal provides therapeutic approaches to specific disorders and specific condition reviews.
• Publications of The Botanical Research Institute of Texas, USA: Sida, Contributions to Botany and Sida, Botanical Miscellany (SBM) Homepage
• Spores Afield, the monthly newsletter of the Colorado Mycological Society (gopher), USA.
• Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift, Sweden.
• Systematic Biology, from University of Texas, USA. Systematic Biology is the quarterly journal for the Society of Systematic Biologists.
• Tree Physiology, Canada. Tree Physiology is a refereed journal, published monthly and distributed in over 60 countries. It publishes both technical reviews and original research reports on all aspects of tree physiology including: responses of forest, crop and ornamental tree species to acid rain, air pollutants, ultraviolet radiation and global warming; the genetic transformation and micropropagation of trees; tree growth, reproduction, nutrition, photosynthesis, and environmental adaptation; and the relation between tree structure and function.
• Vegetable Bytes. Vegetable and Row Crop Newsletter from the University of California, Cooperative Extension in Sutter and Yuba County, USA. Vegetable Bytes is edited by Michael Cahn, the Vegetable and Row Crop Farm Advisor for Sutter and Yuba Counties.
• Weeds World, The International Electronic Arabidopsis Newsletter, UK.
• The World Wide Web Journal of Biology, USA. An international monthly publication of Electronic Press Inc., calling for manuscripts.

Literature Databases

• Annotated Bibliography of the Gesneriaceae, USA. This bibliography was developed in the Department of Botany, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, to facilitate taxonomic research on the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae.
• BIOSIS. BIOSIS, established in 1926, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster the growth, communication and use of biological knowledge for the common good. By accumulating the world's largest collection of abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature and organizing this information for easy access, BIOSIS provides vital sources of information for life scientists.
• Canadian Botanical Specialists and Literature. The information on Canadian Botanists has been compiled by E. Small, J. Cayouette, B. Brookes, and W. Wojtas of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Branch, Central Experimental Farm, Biological Resources Division, Ottawa.
• CARL UnCover Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries: periodical index/document delivery service. Many of the databases of the CARL Corporation require a password and a licensing fee. However, there are a number of library catalogs and free databases available.
• CATALPA, Catalog for Library Public Access - the on-line literature database of the New York Botanical Garden, USA. Telnet site: login as library.
• Conservation Bibliography searchable literature database on gopher, from the Smithsonian Institution, USA. The Conservation Bibliography, which has been published in the 140 issues of the Biological Conservation Newsletter, includes over 8,000 references to literature on conservation biology. These references have been obtained from a weekly review of the new journals and books received by the Smithsonian Institution's Botany and Natural History libraries and from suggestions submitted by subscribers to the newsletter.
• Ecosystem Management Bibliographic Database, Forestry Library, College of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota, USA. The database contains more than 1,000 citations for both social science and biophysical literature, accessible to full text searches.
• EPI-REFS: A Bibliography of Epiphyte Literature, compiled and published by Shawn Landry, Tampa, University of South Florida, USA. EPI-REFS is a bibliography of scientific and horticultural literature pertaining to vascular and non-vascular epiphytes.
• International Academy at Santa Barbara, IASB, California, USA, has a large Environmental Periodicals Bibliography. The vast database that has been created during this time contains more than half a million indexed citations to articles from scientific, technical, and popular journals, spanning the whole range of environmental topics. Nearly 500 journals are currently covered comprehensively.
• IRRO Databases on Environmental Releases, from Brazil. IRRO is an information network, run on a non-profit basis, which aims to provide access to all types of information relevant to the release of animals, plants and microorganisms into the environment. IRRO is an acronym for the Information Resource for the Release of Organisms to the Environment. IRRO's secretariat is located in Sheffield at the MSDN, Microbial Strain Data Network (msdn@sheffield.ac.uk), and the host of IRRO's on-line system is located at BDT (Base de Dados Tropical), in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Databases include IRRO Directory of Information Resources, BIOCAT database on insect control, OECD Biotrack database of releases, UNIDO Code of Conduct for Environmental Releases of GMOs, OECD Compendium of Methods for Monitoring Organisms in the Environment.
• Journals Browse (Life Sciences), gopher in France.
• Library catalogues of the British Museum of Natural History via telnet, UK. Login as libcat. The online catalogue allows you to search by author, title, series, subject term and keyword.
• Library of the Oslo Botanical Garden and Museum, Norway.'
• Promenade - The National Agricultural Library Image Database Project, USA. Promenade is an interface to databases of images and supporting data. Currently there are two collections available under Promenade: the Curtis Botanical Magazine collection of Botanical Prints published between 1797 and 1827, and a collection of photos of plant Pests and Diseases provided by Dr. Randall Heatley of Michigan State University.

Publishers

• Balogh Scientific Books (formerly Koeltz Scientific Books USA)
• Bioline Publications. Bioline Publications is an electronic publishing service for bioscientists. The service is designed to meet the varied needs of bioscientists worldwide. It is provided by Bioline Publications in collaboration with the Base de Dados Tropical, BDT, Brazil.
• Cambridge University Press - UK /// Cambridge University Press - USA.
• Elsevier Science, the Netherlands.
• Kluwer Academic Publishers Gopher - Titles on Plant Sciences, the Netherlands.
• Natural History Book Service, UK.
• Specialist Science Books, UK.
• Springer-Verlag Publishers, Germany / Springer-Verlag Publishers, USA
• Timber Press

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